John Lithgow Quotes
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.
Quotes to Explore
-
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
-
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
-
When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
-
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
-
I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
-
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
-
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
-
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
-
Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
-
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
-
I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
-
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
-
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
-
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
-
There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
-
Fortunately, when Benazir Bhutto was prime minister, she banned public whipping of women - banned whipping of women, period, which is a marvelous thing she did.
-
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
-
The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
-
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.
-
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.
